Does the Mint Make Error Coins on Purpose?

[pennies4pennies]

I just ran across this today and tought I would share it with you.
Does the Mint Make Error Coins on Purpose?

http://coins.about.com/od/uscoins/f/mint_errors_faq.htm

[jcuve]

They are supposed to be focused on creating a consistent product, currency. Errors is one thing they are trying to avoid and appear to go to great lengths to stop errors from occurring and or being released.

[trails]

It is not the U. S. Mint that creates intentional errors, it is the employees who work for the mint that do so. There are many questionable examples from the 1857 improbably die clashes to the Wisconsin "hi" and "low" leaf anamlies that appear to have been "added".

The only known error that was created by a U. S. department was the "Dag Hammarskjold" 4 cent stamp that was at first created with an inverted color by accident. The Director of Printing and Engraving decided that everyone should have this "error" stamp and made the rest of that run of stamps with the inverted color. In the end, it was a horrible mistake.

While I do doubt that the U. S. Mint and some of the more notable foreign country mints would stoop to a low point of making intentional "error" coins, I would not put it past other less worthy mints to do so.

BJ Neff